Climate activists demonstrate outside Brazil embassies in Paris and London

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Reuters

Friday, 23 August 2019 13:27 GMT

People demonstrate during an Extinction Rebellion protest outside the Brazilian embassy in London, Britain August 23, 2019 in this picture obtained from social media. WILLIAM SKEAPING/@EXTINCTIONR /via REUTERS

PARIS/LONDON, Aug 23 (Reuters) - Several hundred environmental activists demonstrated on Friday outside the Brazilian embassy in Paris as a clash between the two countries' leaders over the issue of climate change intensified, while similar protests took place in London.

On Thursday, French President Emmanuel Macron and U.N. Secretary General António Guterres expressed concerns about wildfires that are raging in the Amazon, but Brazilian President Jair Bolsonaro responded angrily to what he regarded as meddling.

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